Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 848 Information and Treasure

Because the question-and-answer time of those professors was too long, the open class that was planned to end in one hour and 40 minutes was extended to two and a half hours, which also led to the lunch time after the communication with everyone.

After discovering this, the professors who had discussed with Liang En simply invited him to the school cafeteria for a simple lunch.

Of course, this simple lunch is not the kind of humble words that the Chinese are used to say, but a real simple lunch, that is, a cup of coffee, a salad and a sandwich.

This is mainly because the British pay more attention to breakfast and dinner, and they often choose relatively simple meals for lunch. As long as they can fill their stomachs, they will naturally not eat so much.

To give the simplest example, the famous fish and chips or sandwiches are a standard British-style lunch. Of course, today, Britain has added exotic foods such as fried noodles or burgers.

Of course, the core reason why everyone chooses to get together for lunch is definitely not just to eat, but to communicate with each other and connect with each other.So soon after eating the lunch of their choice, everyone chatted.

Because it was lunch time now, the content of the chat would naturally not be particularly serious, so everyone quickly got up with some light topics, such as various antique shops in Edinburgh and markets that might sell antiques.

"To be honest, it may be because the economy has been a bit sluggish these days, so there are all kinds of good things circulating in the market."

After chatting with Liang En about the situation around Edinburgh for a while, a professor suddenly talked about some things he had encountered before and some new discoveries.

"At least the antique markets in the old towns that I often go to have entered a batch of things that I have never seen before, but the quality seems to be very good."

"Oh, really?" After hearing what the professor said, Liang En was immediately aroused, so he asked. "Is there anything these antiques have in common?"

"If you want to say something in common, most of these cultural relics are from the end of the French Bourbon Dynasty and the Empire period, and they include everything from furniture to jewelry." The professor said after thinking for a while.

"So I think if there is no accident, these things should come from a noble family, because only the nobles will have this kind of set from hundreds of years ago."

After lunch, Liang En bid farewell to the professors and left the school. After meeting Joan of Arc who was waiting for him outside the school, he headed to the old town.

After walking around the old town, the two found that the professors' information was indeed accurate. Recently, a new batch of French antiques from the 18th and 19th centuries were indeed on the market, but the problem is that the price really makes people not have much desire to buy them. .

Perhaps because these items have an obvious royal style, the prices given by these antique dealers are all 10%~20% higher than the real market price, obviously wanting to make a fortune in the hands of the rich.

Fortunately, this matter is not a secret in the local area, so after cleverly inquiring about it, they also know who the owners of these cultural relics are.

According to these antique dealers, the original owner of these cultural relics was an English baron who had seven or eight illegitimate children, but none of them were legitimate children.

To make matters worse, the baron's legal heir is a distant nephew, but that nephew is now serving as a senior priest in the Roman Catholic Church, so it is impossible to inherit the title.

Due to the extinction of heirs, the baron's wealth will naturally not be inherited by the heir of the title according to the traditional eldest son inheritance system, but will be directly distributed to the heirs of the wealth, that is, the illegitimate children of the other party.

It's just that there is no use for these illegitimate children to get this kind of antiques, so they simply choose to sell these things for the sake of fairness in the division of property.

Some of the things that are very valuable at first glance are naturally auctioned at the auction, but the auction doesn't want everything, so they simply hand over some ordinary things to antique shops for sale. This is what Liang En sees now. of these.

"I thought I could find something interesting this time, but unfortunately there is nothing." While driving to the hotel, Liang En complained.

"Although the things in those antique shops look gorgeous, they are actually some common goods, and the prices inside are too high. I would be really stupid if I wanted to buy them."

"I think your choice is correct, because I just took pictures of some things and sent them to Mary, and she told me that some of those things were only used by middle-level nobles back then, and their value was not very high." Joan of Arc nodded .

"And she even sent me an email to ask me to tell you. I hope you can take a look at the current situation of those back-ups she arranged back then when you are free?"

"What's going on with her arrangement back then? I don't think I've ever heard of it." After hearing what Joan of Arc said, Liang En asked curiously.

"It's like this. After the outbreak of the French Revolution, he actually prepared a series of wealth for exile, but no one knows the final whereabouts of those wealth." Joan of Arc explained the situation here.

"Most of the wealth should have been taken by other people, but not all of the wealth is like this. According to her, some things should remain."

"As for not saying it before, it's because she forgot about it after her resurrection, and she didn't remember it until I sent those photos to Mary today."

"This should be considered a rich person's way of thinking, at least if it was me, I would definitely not forget such a large sum of money." Liang En complained after hearing Mary's reasons for forgetting these things before.

But the complaints are all complaints, the first time he returned to the hotel, he looked at the list that Joan of Arc forwarded to him, to see if there was anything suitable for him to start with.

"—These fixed assets are definitely not good. After so many years, the owner of the fixed assets has changed." Liang En was the first to cross out things like manors and castles.

These things are things on the surface, so other people can always find a way to get them as long as they are sure that the original owner exists. It is obviously too late to find them now.

However, there is still hope for some other chattels to stay where they are, at least some of the loyal guards back then would hide some of them.

The only thing that is uncertain now is how many of those hidden things can be preserved until today, and this is what Liang En hopes to find out now.

This job might have been challenging a few years ago, but it's not the case now, and it's easy to do with a large number of subordinates.

Of course, not all the work will be assigned to the subordinates. For example, the treasure that was considered the most valuable after the investigation is naturally handled by Liang En himself. This is also out of safety considerations.

After all, human nature is not suitable for testing, so Liang En tried his best to avoid letting his subordinates face those tests.

(End of this chapter)